30 Meaningful Bible Verses Celebrating Black History

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’

But the LORD said to Samuel, Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.

Here there is no Gentile or Jew, neither circumcised nor uncircumcised, neither barbarian, Scythian, neither slave nor free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.

And they sang a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

The King will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

We love because he first loved us.

Envoys will come out of Egypt; Cush will be the first to stretch out her hands to God.

Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I believe with all my heart that we will do the right thing.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.